Stringing device for making confections.



NPatented May 9, 1911.

P.l H. PAGE.

STRINGING DEVICE Fon MAKING GoNPEQTIoNs. APPLICATION FILED PEB.1'7, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIQE.

FRANK I-I. PAG-E, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

STRINGING- DEVICE FOR MAKING CONFECTIONS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. PAGE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of liassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stringing Devices for Making Confections, of which the .following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in chocolate Stringing machines for decorating or ornamenting confections.

The main object of the invention is to provide means for directing the flow of semi-liquid chocolate as it leaves its containing receptacle so that a stream of the same will be properly and evenly directed onto moving confections that are arranged to be passed or moved into a vertical stream of the flowing material.

On account of the viscous nature of the semi-liquid chocolate, it is very desirable in this class of machines to maintain a. vertical and uniformly steady flow of the material as it comes into contact with the moving confections, since the viscous nature of the semi-liquid chocolate causes the same to flow in an uneven or irregular manner as it leaves the orifice of the machine, which is somewhat similar to the irregular manner in which molasses or other heavy liquids flow.

Broadly stated, the invention consists in locating below an outlet orifice in which the semi-liquid chocolate is placed, a wire or other element whereby as the stream of flowing chocolate strikes the wire, its path or direction of movement and manner of flow will be controlled, and thereby causing the chocolate to always flow accurately and uniformly onto the moving confection, as will be fully described.

The invention further consists in providing means for adjusting the wire or other element so as to bring the same accurately into the stream of the flowing material, and into the axis of the discharge outlet of the receptacle.

In the drawings forming part of this application,-Figure l is a side elevation of my improvement illustrating the same in use, and showing certain operative parts in dotted lines. F ig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2 2, Fig. l, clearly showing the location and arrangement of the various parts, and particularly the wire or other element that is located below the outlet oriiice for directing the flow of the semi- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1'?, 1909.

Patented May 9, 1.911. Serial No. 478,418.

liquid chocolate as it comes into contact with the confection which is moving past the wire element.

Referring to these drawings in detail, a designates a suitable chamber or receptacle for receiving the semi-liquid or viscous chocolate, the receiving portion of the chamber being designated at b. Located within this chamber is a shaft c provided with a feeld-screw or helical element CZ at its lower enc.

It will be noticed that the diameter of the feed-screw is less than the diameter of the receiving chamber Z), as shown at e. The lower portion of the receptacle a is provided with a plate f and the center portion of the same is formed with a conical wall g that terminates in the opening or discharge oriiice L.

Located within the conical wallg, and nearly closing the orifice /L is the conical portion z' of the shaft c which serves to eectively cause the contents of the receptacle to flow through the orifice L without any clogging or stoppage when the shaft c is rotated.

The means for rotating this shaft is shown by the gear j, and the means for simultaneously imparting to the shaft a reciprocatory movement is shown at c and vra-70 designating an element that is screwed into the upper or yoke portion a of the receptacle a and locked therein by means of the nut 0, and m designating a member that is provided with a projection p which engages the wavy upper surface g of the element 7c. These features for imparting a reciprocating movement to the shaft c form, however, no part of my invention and are merely shown as illustrative means for simultaneously imparting a rotating land reciprocating movementto the Shaft o, whereby the semi-liquid chocolate is caused to flow constantly from the outlet orilice it.

Referring' now to the specific means for directing the flow of the semi-liquid chocolate as it leaves the orifice 7a: r designates a wire having a bent portion s which stands in the same axial line as the shaft o, and is located immediately below the discharge oritice a, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

t designates a bar for supporting the wire 7' which is secured thereto by means of a screw or rivet u. In order to bring the depending portion s of the wire r accurately below the discharge orifice it, it is only necessary until the desired result is accomplished.

The securing bolt 'o passes through an elongated slot w in the supporting bar 2f whereby, When the adjustment of the Wire r is made this bolt is tightened, as readily understood.

t1 designates a part of the chamber i to which the bolt v is secured.

designates a conveyor-belt or apron for receiving the coiit'ections y, any suitable Ymeans being provided for actuating the conveyer-belt so that the coniections y are carried in succession beneath the stream of flowing chocolate, as designated at e, when a ridge otI the material Will be formed on each confection, as shown at y1.

When it is not desired to control the flow of chocolate, as it leaves the discharge orifice 72 the Wire r and its depending end portion s, may be moved out of the line of low of the material and permit the semi-liquid chocolate to loiv in a zigzag or irregular mannei upon the moving coniiections.

2 designates a bracket element which connects the bearing for the shaft 3 which, hovvever, forms no part of the particular invention in question.

Vllat I claim, is

1. ln a liquid chocolate Stringing machine,

to reciirocate the suiaortino' har t' the combination with a receptacle for containing the material, the receptacle being provided With a discharge orifice, and stationary means located in the geometric axis i of the orifice and spaced from the orifice and onto which the material Jfalls for controlling the direction of low of the ma terial as it escapes from the receptacle.

2. In a chocolate Stringing or decorating machine, a receptacle provid-ed with a discharge orice, a guide spaced from the orifice and located between the same and the confection to be decorated whereby the normal irregular 'loiv oiE the materia-l may be varied, as described.

3. In a chocolate Stringing machine, the combination with a receptacle and its discharge oriiice, a single element having a de* pending portion and adapted to be placed in the path of the material during the discharge of the material, and means for supporting and adjusting the element into, and out of, the flowing material, whereby the direction of ioW may be regulated, as described.

FRANK H. PAGE.

lVitnesses:

K. I. CLnMoNs, H. W. BOWEN.

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